Conway, what other patches do you use beside the patches from Promise? Were the patches from Promise for 48LBA? If so, as you have already noted, these are no longer needed in lk 2.4.19 and onward. As for your issue, I, too, had the same battle; however, it was centered around reiserfs, using disk caching in conjunction with the write barrier and data logging patches, and powerfail scenarios. With lots of help from Jens Axboe and Chris Mason of SuSE, the problem was finally overcome. There are a series of patches to resolve this via SuSE. Their kernel source contains many fixes in this area and you should contact them. Jens usually monitors this mailinglist; however, Chris can be also found at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist. Either can be contacted thru SuSE. Regards, Wayne.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Filesystem corruption in kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.4.21 I've been having problems with major filesystem corruption on kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, and 2.4.21. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the driver for the PCI expansion IDE controller the drives are on, and I've reported this problem to the manufacturer (Promise Technology Inc, www.promise.com), but I haven't really gotten any help from them. I've been considering sending this to the kernel mailing list, but I'm a little in awe of all the hardcore coders there, so I figured I'd see if I could get any help here first. ------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------- ---- Any help resolving this would be appreciated, Conway S. Smith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
